all the trolls in the highlands wake up
singing out of time
putting on their costume makeup

in the pale moonlight
and your painted grimaces all look so heavenly tonight


it just seems obvious
the carnival is calling us away
but you don't know what the people say

is it me or doesn't it all sound the same
you don't look back again
'cause the road is dark and

this place is happening
the paint is bright enough to fade it all away


the townsfolk fall for us
they take us in and we rob them every day
we hide away all the coins we save

and pretty soon we'll all go far far away
you don't look back again
'cause the road is dark and

this place is happening
the paint is bright enough to fade it all away


all your sons are well and able
dreaming on their bedtime fables
lilac in your jacket pockets

chase us off like bottle rockets
I can hear the storm what's a little rain
to someone born on the boundary lines

I want to know what you're gonna say
when the morning fades your hysterics away


all the trolls in the highlands wake up
singing out of time
putting on their costume makeup

in the pale moonlight
all the westfjord paupers say don't
ever make a sound

picking up their horns as they go
no you can't push me around


banks are calling us away
I can't stay, I can't stay
sons are waving out to sea

tears on me, tears on me
banks are calling us away
I can't stay, I can't stay

sons are waving out to sea
tears on me, tears on me


hags are burning up inside
serves you right, serves you right
elves are hiding underground

weirds me out, weirds me out
hags are burning up inside
serves you right, serves you right

elves are hiding underground
weirds me out, weirds me out